What is the most common complaint against Accounts Advocate Agency?

The most common issue consumers report about Accounts Advocate Agency is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Debt was paid". This is based on 15 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Accounts Advocate Agency increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Accounts Advocate Agency are rising. The company received 8 complaints in the last 12 months, indicating an upward trend in consumer issues.

What is Accounts Advocate Agency's reputation grade?

Accounts Advocate Agency has a reputation grade of D (score: 53.7/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Accounts Advocate Agency respond to consumer complaints?

Accounts Advocate Agency has a 82% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Accounts Advocate Agency operate?

Accounts Advocate Agency has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 1 states, with the most complaints from Pennsylvania (14 complaints).

This data comes from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and reflects consumer complaints, not proven violations.

Accounts Advocate Agency - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 1 states, reputation grade D.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

6
Written notification about debt

3
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

3
Communication tactics

2
False statements or representation

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record accounts-advocate-agency Accounts Advocate Agency

Grade D · 15 CFPB filings · 82% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #2116 · compose #3599

VOL 15
GRADE D
12MO 8
STATES 1
TIMELY 82%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #2,116
COMPOSE #3,599

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Advanced Resolution Services Inc. (15 complaints)

CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

Accounts Advocate Agency's 15 CFPB complaints sit next to Advanced Resolution Services Inc. on the volume neighbourhood; peer NAMES stay, and disposition VALUES are this collector's. Grades compare collectors to each other - a complaint is a filing, not a proven violation. How to read a complaint count →

State-heavy filing map

93.3% of Accounts Advocate Agency's CFPB filings land in Pennsylvania

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Accounts Advocate Agency is volume #2,116 but composite #3,599, while Pennsylvania dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Pennsylvania 93.3%; 14 of 15 filings · 1 states touched
Spike month: 2025-01 50.0%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #2,116 volume; #3,599 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 1,483 places worse than volume

How does Accounts Advocate Agency compare to its peers?

How does ACCOUNTS ADVOCATE AGENCY compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

ACCOUNTS ADVOCATE AGEN… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

82%

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2025-01 2025-12

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	6
Written notification about debt	3
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	3
Communication tactics	2
False statements or representation	1

Where do complaints against Accounts Advocate Agency come from?

Accounts Advocate Agency's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Pennsylvania

14

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Accounts Advocate Agency: nearest all-time CFPB complaint volume and nearest CFPB timely-response rate among collectors with at least 100 logged complaints. State breakdowns above stay geographic; these neighborhoods vary by metric.

Similar filing volume

Nearest collectors by total CFPB complaints. This record: 15.

4 peers

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Data sourced from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCollector

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database, 1,139,236 debt collection complaints are represented in the current PlainCollector snapshot. See our methodology for how PlainCollector computes each company's reputation grade from this data.

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